maplesyrup

pocketrocket....welcome to mapleleafweb. All churches have rules. If one does not like the rules change churches. If your church decides to marry gays & lesbians and you don't like it, change churches. That should take care of the concerns about religion in this SSM issue.

Gays cheer ruling Well somebody's happy!

You mean a MINORITY of the people in those two provinces elect the NDP governments, contrary to NDP policy everywhere else. I don't want to hear any more whining when it happens elsewhere, hypocrite. ft........no party in power wants to give up its power, however I can assure you that eventually every provincial and federal governemnt in Canada will have some form of PR, in order that the voters are fairly represented in the legislatures and parliament. Why don't you believe in a real democracy where everybody's vote is as equal as possible?

realwannabe...welcome to mapleleafweb. Thank you for a heathy and informative dose of reality, which is often not very apparent here. /375

Welcome victory for gays, lesbians We need much more tolerance in our society.

Article Anything we can do to prevent another incident like what happened 15 years ago at the U of Mtl I support. And the parents of the people who were killed support it too, combined with the police, so that is good enough for me. A lot of folks here have been listening to too many NRA cartoons.

I belive we here at Mapleleafe web like to call this systematic Racisim. Please try speaking for yourself.

not at all maplesyrup, it makes perfect sense for extrapolation of the data. If we compare for instance gun crimes in mirrored areas between the U.S and canada and notice no statisticaly notable difference then it can be argued that the Canadian Gun Registry is not affective. Not I said Gun registry, this is not about Gun control this is about the canadian gun registry, please dont purposefully interchange the words, or perhaps the next tiem we talka bout the new democrats i will infer they are communists because socialism is used interchangably by Karl Marx even though it is evident they are two different things. Likewise Gun Control and the Canadian gun registry are two different things. Anyways if it can then be prooven (i don;t ahve any data infront of me) that Gun crimes in suburban Canada and suburban America are very close, then it doesn;t take a conservative to recognize the gun registry isn't working. So if we were going to advise the U.S on lowering gun crimes we should then focus on the one area that we outline dpreviously, Slums. So perhpas the best way for Canada to avoid homicides is to funnel two billion into Housing subsidies for the poor? weach leads me to my conclusions: 1) The money has been spent 2) it was a wate of money better spent in other areas 3) there is a better way to control gun violence, then the useless gun registry 4) The gun registry, yes we have it, but if we could go back in time it should never have been implemented and the money spent elsewhere. Which leads me to ask you why defend a useless thing, we have it we are stuck with it we all agrre but you actually support it. Which then leads me to my next question, How woudl the gun registry have stopped the nightclub shootings? You claim the NRA uses smoke and mirrors but clearly you are fairly good at it yourself as you have made seven posts since I asked you that question and each tiem you have bi-passed answerign my question. Furthermore you also have blatantly lied to the members of thsi forum to justify your position, you claimed the majority of voters support the gun registry correct?well may I put it in familiar terms, what kind of fallacy is this? So now that 43% beeing a vast majority right, would meen that an overwhelmingly high majority of Canadians wanted to go into Iraq correct? and an overwhelming majority of Canadians voted for stephen harper, right? and an overwhelming Majority of Canadians don't want same sex Marrage right? Oh and by the way an overwhelming majority of Canadians belive I am God and considerign I am God defined as, Being perfect and all that Good stuff as God I decree that the Gun registry is a useless load of crap that does nothing to help the Canadian Population, and to support it is irrational. slavik44....oh I see, communist innuendo now. FUCK YOU!

If someone wishes to marry some one of their own sex it is none of yours, or anyone else's business, except their prospective partner - that is why the SSM legislation will pass. As I said there are 175 votes for, and only 155 are needed for it to pass. As I have said before, it's a slam dunk!

I like the bilingual sign idea, using at least one of Canada's official languages.

Liberals (102) + Bloc (54) + NDP (19) = 175 votes 155 votes needed to pass. There are some Conservatives, who knows how many as well which will support SSM.

Because whoever assembled the website doesn't know everything, and look at all the supposed uncertain ones. I saw other figures tonite on the news and it will pass.

The numbers might jump around for a bit, but the legislation for SSM will pass. SSM will not be imposed on any religious groups. If Le Bloc is not whipped there could be 3-4 who might vote against SSM. Of course PM Martin referred it to the SC to avoid dealing with the issue before the last election. The Liberals will now rush the legislation through.

English signs recommended for Richmond Quebec sign language issue with a twist!

Despite Liberal rift, marriage bill likely It is all about the Liberals but the bill will pass.

This idea that our goal is low taxes is another myth that needs to be put to bed. Taxes are very much part of a healthy society.

Vacations are another area that would be best controlled by the governments. Employers and employees can pay into a fund, with your minimum amount of vacation depending strictly upon your age. The older one gets the more vacation time is required. Age 20: 4 weeks vacation Age 30: 6 weeks vacation Age 40: 8 weeks vacation Age 50: 10 weeks vacation Put this option to the Canadian people on a referendum and I can guarantee you it will pass 80% of the vote. Canada needs a major shake up in our social policies, including making pensions portable.

Website Here you can track the progress of the vote and also see how your own MP will vote. The last I heard is basically all Bloc, all NDP, all Liberal cabinet members, and a few Conservative MPs will support the government legislation. That leaves apparently only 44 backbench Liberals needed for the legislation to pass. Sorry folks but it's a slam dunk!

There is a lot of mythology about the US. Mostly capitalist propaganda. Remember how the US was going to welcomed with open arms in Iraq?

There are other goals in life besides getting rich. It is the distribution of the wealth in the US that is wrong. This is the one of the problems in the US: Bill Gates makes millions billions, whatever, because of low taxes, which have decimated the puiblic school system. Bill Gates then turns around and with his tax deductible receipts, and donates (read controls the direction) to the school system. Educators, not some rich guy, need to be making decisions about the school system. Inproper distribution of wealth has lead to the mess of US inner-city life.

Ask the police! Why do you think the police make use of it?

Have the Liberals had a leadership review yet?

Article Alberta will be forced to back down and support same sex marriage. People need to stop fighting this issue now, as it is a waste of taxpayers money.

What kind of fallacy is this? That is like saying we will talk about national traffic fatalities but exclude the ones that are caused by male drivers. Put in gun control and a gun registry in the US and you will see the homicide rate drop.

Typical right wing bullshit equating swearing with fascism, commies and nazis.